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The Fallacies Keep on Coming
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying Matt Flanagan’s “Fallacy Fridays” feature that he’s been running since January. (I regret not having mentioned it before now!) It’s not quite a full-blown course in logic, but it is an excellent introduction to what counts … Continue reading
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The Preacher Who Could Have Prevented an Epidemic
…except the medical and scientific community wouldn’t listen to him. (H/T: Pseudo-Polymath) Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend
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Weird Egyptological Question
Can anyone enlighten me as to how late the Amarna-era famine(s) in the Levant lasted? Rib-Hadda of Byblos complains about the sparsity of food in several of his letters, but I’m not familiar with the chronology here. Are we talking … Continue reading
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How to Memorize Anything
As this New York Times article explains, the ancient Greeks knew how. Thanks to a first-century BC textbook on rhetoric, we can, too. The answer lies in a discovery supposedly made by the poet Simonides of Ceos in the fifth … Continue reading
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Sounds Like a Devilishly Interesting Book
Exorcism and Deliverance: Multi-Disciplinary Studies Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend
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Latina: Lingua Victorum!
Vel, “in haec lingua vinces“? Hard as it may be to believe, one of the things that gives privately-educated children the edge is their knowledge of Latin. I don’t just mean in the obvious senses – their grasp of basic … Continue reading
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The Cairo Museum: What Has Been Destroyed?
I have not written anything about the uprising in Egypt mainly because I’m still mostly dumbstruck. Egypt seems to be caught in a three-way vise between Mubarak and his supporters, the pro-democracy demonstrators, and Muslim extremists, who hope to leverage … Continue reading
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More Ancient Names from Western Europe
I’ve added the following links to my Online Resources for Ancient Names. These names from the Iberian peninsula belong to the Vasconic language family: Aquitanian, an early form of Euskara (Basque), and the closely related Iberian. The Ascoli Inscription (Latin … Continue reading
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Red Riding Hood Is Over 2,600 Years Old
I missed this when it first came out in 2009. Anthropologists have constructed a “genetic” tree noting the developments and variations in the story of “Little Red Riding Hood.” Contrary to the view that the tale originated in France shortly … Continue reading
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Wise Women 5: Mediums
The Spirit-woman of Endor First Samuel 28 tells the story of the eve of King Saul’s death. The night before his final battle against the Philistines, distraught and having come up short in all of the normally available means of … Continue reading
